Animal Oddities

An albino alligator rests on a heated rock in the Swamp exhibit at the new California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco, Thursday, Sept. 18, 2008. 2008. What's being heralded as the greenest museum building in the world opens its doors to the public on September 27. The new academy in Golden Gate Park is insulated with nontoxic, second hand blue jeans and capped with a 2.5 acre living roof planted in native wildflowers. Thousands of live species of flora and fauna and 20 million specimens are housed in the new building. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)